A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. Containing, Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the Three Dutch Governors of New-Amsterdam; Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Published, Band 1Inskeep and Bradford, 1812 |
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... use of a good manage- able comet , and the philofophical ware - house chaos at his command , he would engage to manufacture a planet as good , or if you would take his word for it , better than this we inhabit . And here I cannot help ...
... use of a good manage- able comet , and the philofophical ware - house chaos at his command , he would engage to manufacture a planet as good , or if you would take his word for it , better than this we inhabit . And here I cannot help ...
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... use the words of a reverend Spanish father , in a letter to his fuperior in Spain— " Can any one have the prefumption to say , that these " favage Pagans , have yielded any thing more than an " inconfiderable recompenfe to their ...
... use the words of a reverend Spanish father , in a letter to his fuperior in Spain— " Can any one have the prefumption to say , that these " favage Pagans , have yielded any thing more than an " inconfiderable recompenfe to their ...
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... use every means to convert these in- fidel favages from the darkness of Christianity , and make them thorough and abfolute lunatics . " In confequence of this benevolent bull , our phi- lofophic benefactors go to work with hearty zeal ...
... use every means to convert these in- fidel favages from the darkness of Christianity , and make them thorough and abfolute lunatics . " In confequence of this benevolent bull , our phi- lofophic benefactors go to work with hearty zeal ...
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... use patent chimnies . - On the year and month just designated , did I take my accustomed walk of meditation , on that fame bat- tery , which , though at prefent , no battery , furni- fhes the most delightful walk , and commands the ...
... use patent chimnies . - On the year and month just designated , did I take my accustomed walk of meditation , on that fame bat- tery , which , though at prefent , no battery , furni- fhes the most delightful walk , and commands the ...
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... use ; so that between one contradictory measure and ano- ther , he entangled the government of the little pro- vince of Nieuw - Nederlandts in more knots during his administration , than half a dozen fucceffors could have untied . No ...
... use ; so that between one contradictory measure and ano- ther , he entangled the government of the little pro- vince of Nieuw - Nederlandts in more knots during his administration , than half a dozen fucceffors could have untied . No ...
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Seite 133 - The sage Wouter took them one after the other, and having poised them in his hands, and attentively counted over the number of leaves, fell straightway into a very great doubt, and smoked for half an hour without saying a word...
Seite 155 - The young folks would crowd around the hearth, listening with breathless attention to some old crone of a negro who was the oracle of the family, and who, perched like a raven in a corner of the chimney, would croak forth for a long winter afternoon a string of incredible stories about New England witches, grisly ghosts, horses without heads and hairbreadth escapes and bloody encounters among the Indians.
Seite 156 - These fashionable parties were generally confined to the higher classes, or noblesse, that is to say, such as kept their own cows, and drove their own wagons. The company commonly assembled at three o'clock, and went away about six, unless it was in winter time, when the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark.
Seite 154 - As to the family, they always entered in at the gate, and most generally lived in the kitchen. To have seen a numerous household assembled...
Seite 133 - ... that having carefully counted over the leaves and weighed the books, it was found, that one was just as thick and as heavy...
Seite 152 - The house was always furnished with abundance of large doors and small windows on every floor, the date of its erection was curiously designated by iron figures on the front, and on the top of the roof was perched a fierce little weathercock, to let the family into the important secret, which way the wind blew.
Seite 153 - ... historian of the day gravely tells us that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little doubt, could the matter be examined into, would be found to have the tails of mermaids, — but this I look upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or, what is worse, a wilful misrepresentation.
Seite xix - Writer must sustain the character of a wise man, writing for the instruction of posterity ; one who has studied to inform himself well, who has pondered his subject with care, and addresses himself to our judgment, rather than to our imagination.